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In the memory of Martin Carter by Rev.Gideon Cecil

Dec 07, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
As we commemorate another death anniversary of our late National Poet Martin Carter, I believe his poetry should be taught in our schools and private education institutions in our country.
It is my firm conviction that the poetry of Martin Carter and many of our literary greats should be taught in our schools today. I give below a thesis of our late eminent poet Martin Carter which I believe would be of great interest to our country and education institutions around our nation and the Caribbean.
For our younger generation, Martin Carter may be just another name listed among one of our National heroes in Guyana. Since literature died a long time ago in our poor system of education, it’s about time our educators re-introduce the poetry of Martin Carter into our education system as well as many other Guyanese writers.
On the 22nd of October 1963, Carter made a very mind boggling prediction about the publishing of poetry in Guyana which is as follows:
‘’Publishing poetry in this country is like lending books to corpses. Few read and those who do are not equipped either by curiosity or sensibility to understand what is confronting them.’’
Rev.Gideon Cecil

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